From Madness to Mutiny
Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts – and What Can Be Done about It
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197661222
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 237x168x42 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English 699
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Short description:
From Madness to Mutiny offers an overview of family court malfunction and the parental mutiny that results from it. The authors outline the legal landscape that makes the madness possible and discuss ways to reform the family courts.
MoreLong description:
This book examines the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts--a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help. Specifically, the authors chronicle cases in which mothers who believe their children have been sexually abused by their fathers are disbelieved, ridiculed, or punished for trying to protect them. All too often the mother, in such a case, is deemed the unstable parent, and her children are removed from her care, to be placed in foster care or even with the father credibly accused of abusing them.
Employing ethnomethodology, they show how a closed and claustrophobic family court setting that makes practical sense to the system's practitioners looks like madness to everyone else. They also describe the social interactive work of mothers trapped inside the system who litigate furiously, take their stories to the press, or turn fugitive with their children.
From Madness to Mutiny offers an overview of family court malfunction and the parental mutiny that results from it. The authors outline the legal landscape that makes the madness possible and discuss ways to reform the family courts.
This second edition analyzes the recent "business model" that has taken hold of the family courts. Mothers must pay exorbitant fees to court-contracting visitation centers to see their children after losing custody to violent, credibly sexually abusive ex-spouses/partners, many of whom have cocaine habits, arrest records, unregistered (or unsecured) firearms, and histories of mental illness and suicidal behavior. While children have died under such conditions, courts are protected by judicial immunity.
I am pleased to write the foreword to the second edition of From Madness to Mutiny. I practiced family law for twenty-five years before transitioning to academia, where I continue my representation of abuse survivors. This second edition provides comprehensive case studies of what happens in court to protective mothers. These narrative case histories need to be taught in law school... This second edition of From Madness to Mutiny offers valuable information that attorneys for protective mothers need to know, and that law students need to learn.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Margaret B. Drew
Preface by Robert Geffner
Acknowledgments
Prologue: What Has Changed in Two Decades, and What Remains the Same?
Introduction
Part I. Family Courts: The Problem
Chapter 1: An Overview of Family Court Madness--and Mothers' Mutiny
Chapter 2: The New Legal Landscape
Part II. Observations in Depth
Chapter 3: Research Methods
Chapter 4: Robed Rage
Chapter 5: Lawless Law Guardians
Chapter 6: Anti-Social Services
Chapter 7: Mental Health Quackery
Chapter 8: Mothers and Madness: The "Aftershocks" of the System
Part III. Changes
Chapter 9: "Rebirthing" the Family Court System
Chapter 10: Reforming the Courts
Chapter 11: Reforming the Court Auxiliaries
Notes
References
